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The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. — Robert McKee
Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness. — Joris-Karl Huysmans
In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who… — William Vickrey
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust… — Martin Mayer
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was… — Wilfrid Sheed
Iâ€™m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if youâ€™re not having kids â€“ who gives a damn? Love who you want.… — Nick Cassavetes
I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. Â But bear in the forest. — Ilya Bryzgalov
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go… — Ian Hart
Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a German way. We… — Hans Schemm
You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia. — Emir Kusturica
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. — Charlie Simpson
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services,… — Karl Hess
I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it — Paul McKenna
The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her... — Pope Gregory XVI
I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I… — Casey Stengel
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and… — Samuel Johnson
We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better… — Isa Gambar

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